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All right, so let's say we have a control rod that we don't want to extend more than 3 millimeters when it's under tension.
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And we're told the tension in the wire, we'll call this f, is 4 ,000 newtons.
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And young's modules for this wire, which is made of brass, 105 giga -pascals.
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Sorry, 105 giga -pascals.
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And we want the maximum allowable stress to be 180 million pascals.
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So we're going to find the smallest diameter rod.
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That should be used in the corresponding maximum length.
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So the maximum stress is just going to be the force divided by the area, which we can write as pi d squared over four.
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So alternatively, this is four times our force over pi d squared.
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And we're solving for d, so you can see this will be 4f over pi times sigma...